Flonnory v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The right of individuals to be free from unlawful searches and seizures is secured in Delaware by both the guarantee of an individual's right under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution ... and the nearly identical language of Article I, Section 6 of the Delaware Constitution.”). 14 . California v. Hodari D., 499 U.S. 621, 626, 111 S.Ct. 1547 , 113 L.Ed.2d 690 (1991) (holding that a seizure under the Fourth Amendment”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harris v. State

2. “provided the police with only a description of the suspects and gave no other information that would have indicated to the officers that the informant possessed an inside knowledge of illegality”); Jones v. State, 145 A.2d 856, 870 (Del. 1999) (opining, in a cocaine possession and trafficking case, that an anonymous tipster’s”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bloomingdale v. State

3. “the Delaware Constitution provides a greater protection for the individual than the United States Constitution in the determination of whether a seizure by the State has occurred.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wheeler v. State